Seeing no way to avoid a war with the United States and seeing no way to defeat the Americans in a protracted struggle, the Japanese stake everything on a quick strike against the heart of the U.S. Navy.

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Seeing no way to avoid a war with the United States and seeing no way to defeat the Americans in a protracted struggle, the Japanese stake everything on a quick strike against the heart of the U.S. Navy.

1941: British destroyers capture a German submarine, U-110, south of Iceland. The British remove a naval version of the highly secret cipher machine known to the Allies as Enigma, and then they let the boat sink — to keep the fact of their boarding secret. The Enigma machine, used by the Kriegsmarine to encode and […]